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Ok... I may be completely fucked up here, but I swear there were pictures all over the place of a woman Secrete Service Agent cowering behind Trump as the shot rang out. I swear they were all over here. NOW all the pictures I see ae the female secret service agent shielding Trump as he stood up and raised his fist.

I am imagining shit...
The "wage gap" meme, it's certainly in this thread
 
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The US is doing it wrong.






Ok... I may be completely fucked up here, but I swear there were pictures all over the place of a woman Secrete Service Agent cowering behind Trump as the shot rang out. I swear they were all over here. NOW all the pictures I see ae the female secret service agent shielding Trump as he stood up and raised his fist.

I am imagining shit...
Scrubbed by main stream media


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The short, more fit chick in the front of Trump has got to be extra pissed about all this :laughing: looks like she did her job and is probably competent, now stuck with the mem of "all Trump women ss agents that day failed" :laughing:
My female Plant manager hates the DEI stuff. Shes been doing her job for 20+ years and is pretty good at it. She isn't impressed with the ones getting the jobs these days. She feels like everybody assumes she got the job because they needed to check a box.
 
According to Ape Eaters, any 20 year old could build a simple device without consulting the internet. One of the pictures I saw showed a remote control that looked like a simple remote outlet control you could buy at home depot. Hardly complex.
Maybe not any 20 y/o, but I know several that could.

I take it back on the ladder. First reports I read were that it was a "cut off" ladder that you need a short ladder on the ground to access. Hadn't seen this pic before.
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But again. No evidence that it was "left out for him". Perhaps he stashed it there days before and it was missed?
Filthy McChevy most likely has the answer.
Or that was put there to retrieve the corpse. Who knows?
Most likely this.
Reports are he bought it that day from Home Depot. How did he hall a ladder that long to the grounds too?
He didn't. The reports say he bought a 5' ladder, and I believe also said it was found in his car.
I really don't think that tall ladder was his ladder. I thought he purchased a 5 ft ladder from home depot which would have been tall enough for him to reach the roof top and pull himself up.

I thought the cop that 1st tried to get on the roof then backed off was reported to have been pulling himself on to the roof using both hands...
I read that two officers went to investigate the reports of him. One helped the other reach the roof edge by cupping his hands together and lifting up the other.


I also saw a video that said he climbed up on top of the AC units.
 
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I take it back on the ladder. First reports I read were that it was a "cut off" ladder that you need a short ladder on the ground to access. Hadn't seen this pic before.
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But again. No evidence that it was "left out for him". Perhaps he stashed it there days before and it was missed?
Dude... 2nd day they were announcing reports where and when he went to buy the ladder, it was from Home Depot I do believe. They were also saying where when he went to buy his ammo, and the quantity he purchased. (They had the ladder height fucked up, but still pretty credible).

Hours before attempting to assassinate former US President Donald Trump, Thomas Matthew Crooks purchased 50 rounds of ammunition and a ladder. Citing senior law enforcement officials, CNN reported that the 20-year-old spent a good 48 hours preparing for the attack.

According to the CNN report, on Friday, the day before Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Crooks visited a shooting range in his hometown of Bethel Park. He practiced firing at the range, where he is listed as a member.



The next morning, he went to a Home Depot to buy a five-foot ladder, and then to a local gun store for the ammunition. Investigators stated that the rifle used in the shooting was legally purchased by Crooks' father in 2013.

Senior law enforcement officials told CNN that Crooks bought the ammunition from a local gun store shortly before the attack. Federal investigators revealed that the rifle used in the attempt was legally purchased by Crooks' father in 2013.

Later that evening, Crooks drove his car about an hour north to Butler, joining thousands of attendees at the Trump rally. He parked outside the event, leaving an improvised explosive device hidden in the trunk, wired to a transmitter he carried.

He used his newly purchased ladder to scale a nearby building and then opened fire on Trump and attendees. Moments after the shots rang, he was killed by Secret Service snipers.

Two spectators were critically injured, and a former fire chief, Corey Comperatore, was killed while shielding his family. Trump got away with a nick to his ear after the would-be assassin's bullet grazed him.

The FBI is investigating whether Crooks was motivated by a violent extremist ideology or had any co-conspirators. So far, they say it appears he acted alone.

On the surface, Crooks had a seemingly normal life. He graduated from the Community College of Allegheny County in May with an associate degree in engineering science and was expected to enroll at Robert Morris University in the fall. He also worked as a dietary aide at a local nursing and rehabilitation centre.

His high school classmates had mixed views on Crooks. Some said he was friendly, while others described him as a loner who was bullied in school.

Crooks' phone has not provided clear explanations for his actions, and investigators are now focusing on his laptop in hopes of uncovering clues about his motive. The investigation is ongoing.
 
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Thomas Matthew Crooks hid rifle in advance of Trump rally sniper attack, Secret Service source says​


I know you are famous for posting links but.... that shit is behind a paywall. Copy and paste is your fiend.
 
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And WTF a laser rangefinder for an open sight AR?
(If the LRF or open sight things are even true)
In the pics it looks like he has a red dot but your point stands. Especially when he could easily look at an aerial picture on his phone for yardage.
 
I hear it was an eotech with no magnification. Imo that makes it harder than open sights.
 
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So usually the BigCo radio stations lag tiktok by about a week or two when it comes to which oldies songs are trending. I wonder when I'll hear Many Men.
 
I hear it was an eotech with no magnification. Imo that makes it harder than open sights.

I have an eotech on a $500 ar and overall have probably shot more then 99% of 20 year old shooters. Standing with no rest I can hit a paper plate probably 4-5/10 ×.

Being off enough to skim an ear during a turn is probably as good as I could do with my sight/gun laying down.
 
And WTF a laser rangefinder for an open sight AR?
(If the LRF or open sight things are even true)
The narrative, that has been pretty consistent is... He is 1st picked up walking through security carrying this range finder. It was not illegal or a firearm, so they made note to keep an eye on him and let him pass.
They did for a minute, and then he left the secure area, where they quit watching him or paying attention to him at all. He THEN went to get to his perch.
 
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I know you are famous for posting links but.... that shit is behind a paywall. Copy and paste is your fiend.
Link I posted earlier pretty much said the same thing without telling you he was registered as a Repub.

Trump’s would-be assassin Thomas Crooks wrote chilling online post foreshadowing rally shooting: report​

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Would-be Donald Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks wrote a chilling online message that hinted at sinister plans for the day he shot up the former president’s Butler, Pa., rally over the weekend.
“July 13 will be my premiere, watch as it unfolds,” the 20-year-old gunman allegedly wrote on Steam, a popular online platform where gamers communicate, Fox News reported.
The foreshadowing was revealed to US senators during a briefing by top law enforcement officials Wednesday.
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Thomas Matthew Crooks wrote a chilling online message that hinted at sinister plans for the day he shot up the former president’s Butler, Pa., rally over the weekend.AFP via Getty Images
Crooks, 20, also had images of the Republican presidential nominee as well as President Biden on his cellphone, and searched the dates of the Democratic National Convention and Trump’s Pennsylvania rally — where he shot at the 45th president from a nearby rooftop, law enforcement sources told The Post.

Investigators are mining the shooter’s phones and computer in search of answers to the assassination attempt — but have not yet identified a motive.
Their probe into the gunman’s search history did not reveal which side of the political spectrum Crooks, a registered Republican, was on, according to ABC News, which first reported the discovery.

Crooks, who was shot dead seconds after firing at the former president, had two cellphones — a primary device recovered near his body and a secondary one at his home that had just 27 contacts, according to Fox.

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Former President Trump reacts as shots ring out during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024.REUTERS
Details of his search history were released as news broke that 20 minutes passed between the time that Secret Service snipers first spotted Crooks perched on a roof with a rifle and the time he began firing at the former president.

The gunfire killed a 50-year-old married dad of two girls in attendance and injured two other rally-goe
 
Or that was put there to retrieve the corpse. Who knows?

I’m not sure where but I saw a map that showed the shooter getting up on the opposite side of the building, it also looks like it has a sheltered area like the where the ladder is.

As has been pointed out no one is dragging a 12 foot a frame ladder miles. When they were reporting that he had bought a ladder from Home Depot it was one of those newer collapsible ones.

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I’m not sure where but I saw a map that showed the shooter getting up on the opposite side of the building, it also looks like it has a sheltered area like the where the ladder is.

As has been pointed out no one is dragging a 12 foot a frame ladder miles. When they were reporting that he had bought a ladder from Home Depot it was one of those newer collapsible ones.
He climbed up an AC unit. The ladder was found in his car.
 
I’m not sure where but I saw a map that showed the shooter getting up on the opposite side of the building, it also looks like it has a sheltered area like the where the ladder is.

As has been pointed out no one is dragging a 12 foot a frame ladder miles. When they were reporting that he had bought a ladder from Home Depot it was one of those newer collapsible ones.

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I have those for work, they are heavy and annoying
 

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Trump’s would-be assassin’s online searches, cryptic post about his plot on gaming site​

July 18, 2024 | Vivek Saxena | Print Article



Thomas Matthew Crooks, the punk who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump, evidently thought he was going to be a star.
Federal law enforcement authorities confirmed to Congress during a briefing Wednesday that Crooks had penned an ominous message on an online gaming platform days before the assassination attempt.
July 13 will be my premiere, watch as it unfolds,” Crooks wrote on the gaming platform Steam, according to Fox News.


The authorities discovered this message while reportedly investigating Crooks’ laptop. On the laptop they also found online searches for terms such as Trump, Biden, “when is the DNC convention,” and the July 13th Trump rally where the assassination attempt took place.
“The investigators found no evidence of a particular ideology on the laptop, which the FBI believes is notable, and nobody in interviews reported Crooks discussing politics,” Fox News noted.

So from the initial sounds of it, it was a non-ideological nutjob who’d possibly sought fame.
According to reports, the ominous message he wrote was posted on a Steam community forum centered on the game “Mr. President!”
In the game, the player plays as the bodyguard of the fictional “most hated presidential candidate of all time, Ronald Rump.”





Meanwhile, according to a separate report, Crooks’ parents alerted the authorities to him sometime before the assassination attempt last Saturday.
“The Trump rally shooter Thomas Crooks’ parents were looking for him in the hours leading up to the shooting,” Fox News’ Harris Faulkner revealed Wednesday. “We’re now being told they eventually called law enforcement to report that Crooks was missing and they were worried. And we’re also told that the parents are now being cooperative now with authorities. But they gave them the head’s up that something’s going on with our son, we’re worried.”
“We don’t know the texture or the details of their concern. So in other words, were they worried that he had a gun? What were they worried about him? Were they worried that he was going to try to attempt to kill a sitting president and then go ahead and turn into an assassin and kill another person and injure two others? What were they giving the cops the head’s up about?” she added.
What made the shooter’s parents worried so much about him that they had to call the police to find him?
 
What made the shooter’s parents worried so much about him that they had to call the police to find him?
I'd put a lot of money on them knowing or suspecting a lot more than nothing at that point. The call to the cops wasn't just about a kid who has been missing for a few hours. I wonder what they actually shared with the police and if withholding any information will get them in more trouble. I would not be suprised if they see jail time.
 
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